By Clare Duffy | CNN Newspaper chain Gannett has paused the use of an artificial intelligence tool to write high school sports dispatches after the technology made several major flubs in articles in at least one of its papers. Several high school sports reports written by an AI service called LedeAI and published by the…
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By Mary Schlangenstein and Ryan Beene | Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc. flight attendants gave their union leaders approval to trigger a strike if the labor group is eventually allowed to end contract negotiations under federal labor law, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants said. The so-called strike authorization was approved by more than 99%…
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Nina Metz | Chicago Tribune Hollywood has been in limbo these last few months. It’s been especially tough for everyone who earns their living making TV and film. But it also means viewers will start seeing just how that is impacting the fall network lineup. A prolonged strike — still ongoing — will inevitably have…
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The city of Mission Viejo denied the National Women’s Cricket League a home at the site of the World Cup Soccer Fields and Potocki Center for the Arts. FairBreak Global, an Australian-based women’s cricket league, reached out a few months ago to assess Mission Viejo’s interest in establishing itself as a U.S. national cricket center,…
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By Michael R. Sisak | Associated Press NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti’s conviction for plotting to extort up to $25 million from Nike – one of several legal messes that have landed him behind bars. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Avenatti’s claim that…
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By TERRY SPENCER PERRY, Fla. — Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning streets into rivers, unmooring small boats and downing power lines before sweeping into Georgia. Almost 438,000 customers in Florida and Georgia…
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Lacey Pfalz | TravelPulse (TNS) The Caribbean is a beautiful region of the world, but if you’re traveling to the area for the first time, a few tips will make your travels even better. So what do you need to know when traveling to the Caribbean for the first time? Not all islands are the…
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PHILADELPHIA — Hunter Renfroe, Reynaldo López and Matt Moore all could have been playing their final game in an Angels uniform Thursday. Each played a pivotal role – good and bad – in the Angels’ 10-8 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday afternoon. The final blow was delivered by a player who isn’t going…
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Tim Henderson | Stateline.org (TNS) Several months after President Joe Biden ended the national emergency for COVID-19, preliminary health data indicates the historic degree to which the pandemic increased death rates nationwide — not just because of the virus itself, but also through the pandemic’s reverberating effects on society. Deaths from vehicle crashes, homicides, suicides…
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COVID-19 cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24 percent last week. But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline “Up 24 Percent!” comes after dramatic lows. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, “The pandemic is over.” Yet the shallow media keep pounding away: “It…
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